{"id":27760,"date":"2021-02-23T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27760"},"modified":"2021-02-23T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:04:06","slug":"usually-its-the-opposite-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/23\/usually-its-the-opposite-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Usually, It&#8217;s The Opposite Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got this puzzle piece on my desk.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/puzzlepiece.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The normal trouble is to find, when you&#8217;ve almost completely assembled a puzzle, to find a single piece missing.  <\/p>\n<p>However, sometimes during the disassembly process here at Nogglestead, a single puzzle piece will hit the floor, especially if the cats are helping with the disassembly, only to be found some time later.<\/p>\n<p>At which time, I apparently put it on my desk.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot throw it out, of course, since we might assemble the puzzle later and need it.  So I will put it with the other stray puzzle pieces; and, if we think of it, we can look for this piece if we ever come one short.<\/p>\n<p>Although, given the distinct markings on this piece, perhaps I can just look for the box.<\/p>\n<p>But, no: why deprive myself of a future item for a Five Things on My Desk post?<\/p>\n<p>Also note, gentle reader, that I still have a couple incomplete young children&#8217;s puzzles wrapped up in storage, each missing one or two large wooden pieces.  I cannot give them away incomplete, so I have set them aside in case those pieces turn up.  They&#8217;ve been in storage for probably six or seven years now, and Nogglestead does not shake out as many stray kids toy bits as it used to.  But that&#8217;s something for my estate sale planners to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got this puzzle piece on my desk. The normal trouble is to find, when you&#8217;ve almost completely assembled a puzzle, to find a single piece missing. However, sometimes during the disassembly process here at Nogglestead, a single puzzle piece will hit the floor, especially if the cats are helping with the disassembly, only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27761,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27760\/revisions\/27761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}